Public Is Allowed At Park Over Tenants' Objections

Lake Villa — Village officials have enacted a controversial ordinance to open a beachfront park next to a private apartment complex.

At Wednesday night's Village Board meeting, some residents of the Water's Edge apartment complex objected to public access to the Deep Lake park.

And an attorney for the 108-unit complex objected to a section of the new ordinance that prohibits people from storing boats on the lake overnight. A special-use permit that the village granted to the complex allows apartment dwellers "unlimited use of the park, lake and related boat-launching facilities," said attorney Charles Edwards.

Edwards said the complex's managers would consider filing suit to allow apartment dwellers to store boats on Deep Lake overnight.